Lie still.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不动
motionless
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
motionless
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不动 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不动 appears in 12 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It won't budge one bit.
The cat didn't move a muscle.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不动.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不动.
Directly before
- 拿不动3
- 也不动2
- 搬不动1
- 停下来不动1
- 抱不动1
Directly after
- 不动了2
- 不动那台1
- 不动的1
- 不动它1
- 不动啊1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 不动
What does 不动 mean in Chinese?
不动 (bùdòng) means motionless.
How do you pronounce 不动?
不动 is pronounced bùdòng.
Is 不动 an HSK word?
不动 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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